<p>Well…my good news is a likely letter arrived for my son in today’s snail mail… we knew it was coming, but until you have it in your hands… phew… won’t say any more until we get the official acceptance on 12/15, but suffice it to say, we are happy, PROUD parents… and our child is also feeling the JOY…</p>
<p>My daughter called this afternoon from her dorm room at college, over 1000 miles away. Going camping this weekend. Asked me where her flashlight could be. I told her where I thought it was - came up with two possibilities where I thought I might have seen it. (We visited her recently.)</p>
<p>She texted me shortly afterward.</p>
<p>She found her flashlight.</p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>I don’t know if this is considered good news. I am around Washington, DC and shopping at Nordstom Rack and the line up at the cash register was as busy as one year ago. The prices are not great either. :(</p>
<p>Does that mean people have not stopped spending and we will soon be fine ?</p>
<p>Munchkin, I think that is good news! Apparently low prices are bad news. </p>
<p>(I should have taken Economics at some point in my life… Almost every aspect of this recession mystifies me.)</p>
<p>Munchkin:</p>
<p>Don’t know if this matches you but I was at Saks and Neiman’s the last two days. They were having a huge sale. If you were there it was like there is no recession. Women were buying 4, 5, or more handbags at a clip. In fact in the Chanel section a fist fight broke out because the prices were so reasonable. (I do not consider $1600 for a PLASTIC Chanel purse reasonable.) So…good news: Lots of money just went into the economy!</p>
<p>Congrats on the good news Maine.</p>
<p>Mine is: son coming home for Thanksgiving. Just long enough for him to thaw out before heading back to the frigid East Coast.</p>
<p>My father is recovering nicely from his early-November-let’s-scare-everyone-half-to-death heart attack.</p>
<p>S will be home for Thanksgiving, and it’s a constant amazement to see the man he is becoming.</p>
<p>And I’ve lost 21 pounds since September, so yay.</p>
<p>Wooooh! Helimom, 21# that is awesome</p>
<p>Yesterday, I was very sad because my D is not coming home for Thanksgiving after all.</p>
<p>But today I can look at my blessings. My H had a heart attack in March but now he is doing so good! He has a new job and has a fantastic boss and this job is so much less stress than the last one. My S is coming home today, yea! He has a co-op for next year, a blessing in this economy. I went back to my part time job and I love it. They let me come back for the xmas season and I love the people that I work with.</p>
<p>I am most excited that we bought a new house, received financing with out any problems, but most of all, it has an attached garage! I can’t wait to park in my attached garage and walk into my house without trudging through the snow and I won’t have to scrape my car off everyday. This is a true blessing.</p>
<p>Deb922,
YOU have lots of great news…this has been a challenging year for you… totally makes me laugh that you throw in the “we bought a new house” comment…without getting into the whole moving aspect of the new house. Honestly, if I had to move right now, I would need a year to shovel us out of here…and I am not talking shoveling snow!! Am happy for you with all your news…especially your husband’s health. Work can often be a big source of stress…</p>
<p>am glad this thread was started…cause good news can be little things… and we do all need to know that we can forge onward… I am glad that Obama is starting to let final names out on Treasury etc…cause it has felt like a rudderless ship and while he doesn’t have “authority” he can tip his hand and show his directions/intentions and he is… all good news…</p>
<p>Hey, all you people who lost weight… I found it. You can come and get it any time.</p>
<p>When someone finds a lost item, that’s good news, right? ha ha</p>
<p>Yeah, Deb! Sounds like a lot of things are going right. It’s also a good sign that your D is comfortable enough where she is to stay there for Thanksgiving, much as you will all miss her.
I’m happy because I have a very rewarding & challenging part-time job, people who are excited about what I’m doing, great kids who are figuring out what they want for their futures, healthy parents who are happy, and a spouse who financially and emotionally supports my public health efforts while working at a job he mostly enjoys.
I find it hard to imagine moving at this point in my life, but congratulate those who are able to. We really sink down roots & just stay put.</p>
<p>College sophomore son accepted a well-paying internship in his intended field for next summer. </p>
<p>I’ve made my goal weight after dieting since February and have lost 50 pounds. </p>
<p>Thanks for starting this thread!</p>
<p>I fixed my TV remote today, by tightening screws. ‘Flashback’ is back!</p>
<p>I’m going to have about 10 teenagers in my house celebrating my daughter’s birthday today. Lots of loud music and excitement. Ah, it’s nice to be so young.</p>
<p>Thanks for all the kind comments. I have more good news. I think that my D finally dumped her controlling, pain in the behind, hometown boyfriend. I will be very happy if she finally breaks away from him! Yea for the turkey drop! </p>
<p>About the moving, I’ve already moved moutains of crap out of the house to get it ready to sell. We are lucky that my husband has a generous relocation package and it’s a full pack package. So I don’t have to pack anything but I do have to unpack. Hopefully since it seems that I threw a house full of stuff away already it won’t be as hard to unpack. It’s a terrible awful time to be selling a house, we have a buyout but it’s really bad. We have to accept it and move on. I will be very glad to be living with my husband again.</p>
<p>My husband was critically ill a few months ago and was in ICU on life support for almost 3 weeks. My kids and I were told that he wasn’t going to make it. Miraculously, he has made a full recovery. And tonight we went out to dinner to celebrate our 23rd anniversary. If that’s not good news, then I don’t know what is!</p>
<p>^^^ congrats blackeyedsusan! That is great news!</p>
<p>My DH and I jsut found a great, very authentic Japanese restaurant not far from our house. The other ones nearby are ok, but this is a gem!! This is great news for us.</p>
<p>blackeyedsusan, HAPPIEST of anniversary wishes for you, I’m sure you’ll celebrate each other more than you ever have!</p>
<p>My good news is that my brother, who lost his wife last year, is excited about coming over for Thanksgiving with his kids - he’s doing okay.</p>
<p>Oh, and my Steelers won on Thursday. :)</p>
<p>Yay yay yay! This thread is great! My DS is coming home, and although he figured out the 4 hour trip on public transportation for fall break, this time he found a ride–the kid must be learning to be a college student! (First year–that is bigger than it sounds, for a non-planning male). And I am 4 years cancer-free–I suspect, though it was in many ways a blur, that I was at the nadir of chemotherapy 4 years ago, and it sure is great to have HAIR, ENERGY, and my HAPPY SELF back again, in spades!! On top of all that, after over 20 years of working more or less as a hobby with inner city young people on the whole college app.process, I am now getting PAID to do it in a fabulous part time job which I absolutely LOVE (except that the adrenaline has me not sleeping too well at night until all the apps. are in). These not-yet-achieved-their-potential students are really a challenge to work with, in this college process (PLEASE, some college, somewhere, take these students!) but the incarnation of HOPE that is the process of working with them–man, it is a privilege to be part of it.</p>